Butte
Pictures : Photographs of Butte, Montana

Mining
Rigs and Towers in Butte

Abandoned
mining rigs and towers are found everywhere in Butte. Something
like 40 of these old mining towers are found throughout the town.
None
of these mining towers are currently in use. These mining towers
were used to pull the ore up from deep down below the surface
before the advent of strip mining - as well as to lower the miners
up and down into the shafts.